There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
– Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio
Having been a fellow student with Prince Hamlet at Wittenberg University, the “philosophy” Horatio studied would most likely have been natural philosophy, the precursor to what would later become natural history and later our modern science. Much has been discovered since those days, but much has also been lost.
In our quest to become ever more accurate, dividing and sub-dividing the fields in search of irrefutable discrete bits of knowledge, we sometimes lose sight of the larger, albeit less well-defined view of the whole. We also even occasionally forget why we began our inquiries in the first place.